Do Eleven & Mike end up together?

Stranger Things finale delivers a mega battle with the Hawkins team facing the ultimate villains, Vecna and the Mind Flayer.

What began in 2016 as a modest ’80s-inspired horror-fantasy series soon grew into a Netflix juggernaut, ultimately concluding with an expansive finale written and directed by its creators, the Duffer Brothers.

Episode 8, titled “The Rightside Up,” opens at full throttle as the group launches its final assault on Vecna and the Mind Flayer.

Eleven, Kali, and Max confront Henry Creel inside his mind, while Hopper and Murray ready the bomb to obliterate the Upside Down. Elsewhere, the remaining members steel themselves to enter the Abyss and rescue the kidnapped children.

In a dramatic story arc, Henry’s traumatizing cave memory is revealed. It turns out it was the Mind Flayer that turned Henry into the hideous Vecna, and it has been controlling him all along.

The finale builds steadily toward a pulse-pounding climax, culminating in a psychic face-off between Eleven and Vecna deep within the Mind Flayer itself, as chaos erupts outside, with the rest of the Hawkins crew firing back and throwing themselves into a desperate fight against the towering creature.

Amidst the chaos of the Hawkins gang trying to save the kids and kill Vecna, Kali is killed.

Lt. Robert Akers fired at Kali just before Murray distracted everyone by blowing up a helicopter. In the chaos, Eleven quickly took out the soldiers and then used her powers on Akers, making him turn the gun on himself.

In the aftermath, when the Hawkins crew traveled back from the Upside Down, Dr. Kay’s military captured them. Eleven decided to make the ultimate sacrifice by stepping inside the Upside Down gate minutes before it was blasted.

Does Eleven survive the Stranger Things finale, or is Netflix really that evil?

When the bomb went off, it seemed like Eleven had given everything, destroying the Upside Down and finally sealing the gateway for evil.

She shared one last, heart-wrenching kiss with Mike as everyone around her grieved.

But, as per Mike’s theory at the end, it was all an illusion; Kali had conjured a fake Eleven. In the end, Mike realizes the real Eleven is safe, enjoying a peaceful hike far from anyone who might harm her.

Now, it’s up to the fans: is Mike’s theory spot-on, or is Loverboy just stuck in denial?

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